ABSTRACT
It is, of course, not true in the sense of complexity; but given the existing range of interests in the societies that have it, it expresses them with the greatest facility. For the development and perpetuation of such a government there is necessary not merely the simplicity of the interest groupings, but perhaps also freedom for the splitting of the society in two, and for the emigration of one part to an independent neighborhood. The interests are now more minutely divided; no one has so great a dead weight; there is a more elaborate organization for giving them pathways through the government. The history of the presidency from that day to this has been the history of the interests which chose it as their best medium of expression when they found other pathways blocked. The chapter considers the position of American executive in the government in more general terms.
